In addition to Brexit - the service, manufacturing and retail businesses have been hit by other changes.
With internet shopping, cashless transactions, obsolete bank branches/estate agents etc., computers doing more - and many people working from home.
Also - climate change, homelessness, extreme poverty, immigration and a growing reliance on the state - are becoming more of a problem.
None of this augers well for the foreseeable future - which, many are now predicting, will include social unrest of a violent nature.